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re: NCAA should change "First Four" to last 8 bubble teams
Posted on 3/18/15 at 10:27 am to GreyReb
Posted on 3/18/15 at 10:27 am to GreyReb
Go to a 64 team at-large tournament with no automatic bids. Sorry Robert Morris, power 5 conference teams wouldnt get a pass losing to 6 teams from the Northeast conference and neither should you. This is collegiate athletics so we shouldn't be handing out participation trophies to terrible teams.
These 16 seed type teams schedule tough non-conference slates every year and typically get blasted by the "good" teams so it's not like in football where the small schools dont have a chance to prove themselves with maybe 1 marquee matchup. These smaller schools get 8-10 chances to prove they can hang with the big boys and if they fall flat on their face they dont deserve to get in just like any other team.
These 16 seed type teams schedule tough non-conference slates every year and typically get blasted by the "good" teams so it's not like in football where the small schools dont have a chance to prove themselves with maybe 1 marquee matchup. These smaller schools get 8-10 chances to prove they can hang with the big boys and if they fall flat on their face they dont deserve to get in just like any other team.
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Posted on 3/18/15 at 10:33 am to MMB5DAP
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Go to a 64 team at-large tournament with no automatic bids
Would ruin the tournament. There are still teams who got in via winning their conference tournament that have gone on runs that are now some of the most memorable moments in tourney history. In this format you have no FGCU, no Valpo, no Bucknell over Kansas, no Princeton over UCLA. It would lose a lot of it's luster and become a pretty bland product
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